Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
ALEXANDER HAMILTONA powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.
More Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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Best of wives and best of women.
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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The very aim and intention of the democratical part, or the house of commons, is to secure the rights of the people. It’s very being depends upon those rights. Its whole power is derived from them, and must be terminated by them.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
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Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
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Caution and investigation are a necessary armor against error and imposition.
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If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
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There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
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Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
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Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.
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